Spending the evening with Dad & Mum..

how often does a 23 year spend an evening alone with dad & mum on a saturday night evening? Esp when you're part of a bigger brood of 4 siblings and often the least attention catching one..

So it was kinda different, having the chance to go around looking for some buffet as my parents had the craving and finally after 2 hours, we finally settle for Oscars @ the Conrad Centennial. Seafood was decent, I had lobsters, prawns, salmon etc etc..
They served decent waffles and a nice pot of tea to end the meal ..

towards the end of the meal, it was time for my parents (esp my mum) to ask me questions regarding my plans in the next few years, how I'm going to juggle between school work and building a career, what paths I'm taking etc...

Well, the funniest comment I hear from my mum, is her growing concern if she could be a grandmother before she is 60.. well, that's 5 more years to go ... but telling that to a single guy like me, I'm like.. okay, first I need to make more female friends, then I need to mask (re-invent) myself more.. and be attractive enuff ... etc etc.. I seriously doubt I can reach my mum's date-line..

Too much stress won't induce a baby or even finding a spouse candidate anytime soon right??

And they say mother knows best.. Oh well, that's for my mum and my heavenly father to plan for me.. I'm still learning to be more 'cool' in relationships..

Speaking of which, I still get the occasional questions, "isn't it funny/difficult to see your ex in church week in, week out..?"
Well, honestly its not like all nice and dandy, but seriously, I'm glad that I do see her from afar once in a while. She has moved on, dated other people, after a period of time, you don't really bother so much. Instead, I'm really glad that most of all, she's still coming to God's temple and worshipping him. There's one being that can love her and cherish her better than me, and all her suitors.. and that is God himself. Therefore, I'm most encourage to see her in church more than anything else. After all, we have hardly exchange even a word/smile for close to 2 years. So its not as if we act as if nothing happens, but I think we're both learning to be cool about it. What affection left behind for me is clearly of kinship affections, and I see her as a sister in Christ that should be love appropriately.

I'm confident that the Lord will continue to uphold and encourage people who like me have struggled with the very foundation of our faith because we were broken in the first place by the circumstances that God allows to happen. Going through all that, I've come to appreciate the complexity and dynamics of relationships in a more intimate manner that I would never have experience it if I wasn't broken by circumstances.

Indeed, going through life's challengers seems impossible with our own strength and might; but there's a little more hope than we can cling onto..

That is, the Lord is the same today, yesterday and forever more. And this same God, loves you more than anyone else could ever love you.